According to Aunt Qiu's explanation, that tenant was more than generous. Offering twice the cost for a house that nobody wanted was like a pie falling from the sky. Aunt Qiu had initially felt the same way. However, after hearing that the Gu Family had sold their junk house for more than three to four times the price, she started feeling that perhaps she had sold hers too cheaply.
Of course, she also knew that not everyone was as lucky as the Gu Family with junk houses—some remain unsold for a lifetime. If she didn't sell it now, it might really turn into a haunted house, and she wouldn't get a penny for it.
"Do I even need to think about whether to sell this house or not?" Gu's father didn't even need to think, "Even if you sold that house, it's useless. Isn't it a small-property house? I think that person is also foolish. Where do such people come from, having too much money or what?"
Aunt Qiu laughed when she heard this, "Right? That's what I thought too."
Gu's mother wanted to say something, but her daughter secretly tugged at her, and she fell silent.
Aunt Qiu had a cup of tea at their place and then said she was leaving. Gu's father saw Aunt Qiu out.
Taking advantage of the fact that her father was not at home, Gu Nuan said to her mother, "I remember, her house is built on the mountain."
Gu's mother recalled, "You remember more clearly than I do. Their family must have gotten the mountain land." She then looked up at her daughter, "Why? Is there a problem?"
"It really depends on what the contract she signed with that person stipulates. When someone bought her house, they certainly didn't buy something without clear ownership rights. Wealthy people, who even have leisure time to come for vacations, definitely know about such things." That's why Gu Nuan didn't plan to discuss this in front of her father and his relatives.
Otherwise, wouldn't such a statement make her father look foolish? Gu's father had just called that astute investor a fool.
"You, you mean that person wasn't a tenant?" Gu's mother was surprised.
Aunt Qiu had said that someone came for a vacation and liked her house so much they bought it.
Gu Nuan laughed out loud, knowing such a thing was unlikely.
Aunt Qiu's house was built on a mountain, standing alone. Just see how many years Aunt Qiu had it built and she never lived in it herself, is it truly because she was too busy with city matters? No, just looking at how Aunt Qiu's house was released for rent but never got tenants tells you why it stood alone on the mountain like a haunted house.
Only those with a specific intent would be interested in Aunt Qiu's house.
Plainly speaking, they were after the piece of land Aunt Qiu owned.
"Maybe a big corporation is planning to acquire land here recently, and they discovered that the land her house is on is good. Just using her house as a breakthrough, the price could probably be secured for less than half the market value."
Gu's mother didn't really understand all the complex points her daughter made, feeling only that her daughter was hinting, "Are you saying she sold it cheaply?"
Impossible, right? Selling that haunted house for three hundred thousand and that's cheap?
Gu Nuan said, "Mom, you know about the nail households, right? A nail household can grind down and usually get much more money than others. What she did was a total loss, absolutely a loss-making deal. It can only be said she just encountered a sly old fox who knew how to discreetly remove this 'nail' from her house, then deal with the land price, effectively doubling their accomplishment."
Investors work precisely like this, making you feel it's fair at the moment you sell, sometimes even offering a higher price for your assets.
Just like three years ago when Gu Nuan bought the house from that landlord, raising her offer by five percent, effectively edging out another competitor—because she had already meticulously calculated the cost price in her mind.